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So you want to farm, but you’re not sure where to start. Farming at any scale – whether it’s a countertop herb garden or an acre of land – can be intimidating. But if you’re ready to get started, Modern Farmer has you covered. In these guides, you’ll learn how to raise animals like pigs, The post 10 Essential Guides for the Farm Curious appeared first on Modern Farmer.

This story is part of a partnership between Verite News and Modern Farmer. Verite News is nonprofit news outlet covering New Orleans. You can read more of their work here.    Chekeita Strong stood up in front of a crowd in New Orleans last April, introduced herself, and began giving instructions. There were about 70 The post The Community Organizing Effort That Helped Save an Urban Farm in New Orleans appeared first on Modern Farmer.

Our waterways can feel unknowable. But just like in other areas of our food supply, there are people working to improve water conditions and ensure sustainable aquaculture practices are in place for generations to come. This collection of stories from our archives highlight just a few of these efforts. From fighting ocean plastics with fungi The post Dive Deep: The Future of Aquaculture appeared first on Modern Farmer.

Just a Few Acres Farm in Lansing, NY has nearly 500,000 subscribers on YouTube, where seventh-generation farmer Pete Larson posts videos with titles like “The basics of cutting hay” and “Playing in the Dirt with Pregnant Pigs”. The videos cover everything from dealing with his cattle and daily chores to advice for aspiring small farmers The post The Financials of Profitable Small-Scale Farming appeared first on Modern Farmer.

Michelle Scott, the communications and development manager for the Wood Buffalo Food Bank, recalls the lightbulb moment that cemented the importance of having culturally relevant food available for their clients. A gentleman from North Africa was given a generic food hamper and he had to ask what the dried bag of pasta was, and what The post On the Ground With Food Banks Decolonizing Food appeared first on Modern Farmer.

At Modern Farmer, we believe that food is a right. More specifically, access to nutritious, locally-grown food, is a right. Unfortunately, not everyone has access (or enough access) to food. But our food systems don’t have to look they way they currently do. We don’t have to accept the status quo. We can rise, as The post How Cities Are Putting Food Equity First appeared first on Modern Farmer.

Huberto Juan Martinez (54) is not at home when we stop in front of his house in Cerro Armadillo Grande. “He is working on the plantation,” his wife announces. Huberto and his younger son are inspecting the plants that ensure the family’s livelihood. With their machetes in hand, they clear away any unwanted flora encroaching The post Vanilla is in Crisis. Producers in Mexico Are Not Giving Up appeared first on Modern Farmer.

Located on the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay sits Alameda County, where Dig Deep Farms’ two farm sites grow rows and rows of fresh food. Dig Deep Farms is a Black-led and BIPOC nonprofit organic farming operation that serves the community with its harvests and its commitment to providing economically viable jobs and The post The Farm and the Food Bank appeared first on Modern Farmer.

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Helene and Milton, the two massive hurricanes that just swept into the country — killing hundreds of people, and leaving both devastation and rumblings of political upheaval in seven states — amounted to their own October surprise. Not that the storms The post The Climate Stakes of the Harris-Trump Election appeared first on Modern Farmer.

When Briana Bosch started her Colorado flower farm, Blossom and Branch, the fifth-generation farmer—her family had a dairy and corn farm—mimicked what her family had always done: plastic landscape fabric to control weeds, plastic seedling trays, plastic netting, even plastic irrigation tubing. It wasn’t long before she grew disenchanted with the amount of plastic she The post How to Reduce Your Plastic Usage in the Garden appeared first on Modern Farmer.